Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I mean, technically, he wasn’t fired,” Emilia clarified. “He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill’s forte, and I guess anything’s a pretty big step down after the White House.”

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252. “What fun is it playing by other people’s rules?”

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253. “The next thing I knew, she was gone.”

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254. “Xander dusted his hands off on his pants. “Secret passage,” he said, then attempted to dust off his pant legs with his hands. “This place is full of them.”

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255. “My grandmother gave an elegant little shrug. “People will think what they want. I daresay they always do.”

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256. “Dearest Avery, I’m sorry. – T. T. H.”

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257. “It always came down to power and control – who had them, who didn’t, who would lose them first.”

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258. “But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need – they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”

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259. “I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”

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260. “That’s my girl!” Xander bellowed. “Woman,” Max corrected. “That’s my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!”

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261. “I can be careful,” I said, somewhat disgruntled. “Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces.”

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262. “Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it’s not about the money, because you couldn’t spend billions if you tried It’s about the power.” I looked down. “And I just don’t think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”

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263. “This wasn’t instinct,” the man – Adam – countered. “This was guilt, Ivy.” “I’m not debating this with you.” “Evidence would suggest you are.”

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264. “I used to play chess with him in the park,” I said. “Every morning.”

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265. “I’ve built three different companies from the ground up. You don’t achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.”

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266. “So,” Libby said sagely, “chess.” “Chess,” I repeated. “The move – it’s called the Queen’s Gambit. Whoever’s playing white puts that second pawn in a position to be sacrificed, which is why it’s considered a gambit.” “Why would you sacrifice a piece?” Libby asked. I thought about billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, about Toby, about Jameson, Grayson, Xander, and Nash. “To take control of the board,” I said.”

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267. “I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I’d realized.”

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268. “I told you she was special,” Jameson murmured as Grayson continued closing in on him. “And I told you to stay away from her.” Grayson stopped, just out of Jameson’s reach.”

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269. “The Rooney girl never even should have been there!” Sheffield exploded. “She was a criminal. Her parents? Criminals. Cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles? Criminals.”

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270. “The word wrath jumped out at me. I thought about the alcohol and drugs we’d found in Toby’s room. I thought about the fire on Hawthorne Island and the way the press had lauded Toby as such an outstanding young man.”

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271. “But on a more visceral level: I could have died.”

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272. “Some people are smart. Some people are good.” He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. “And some people are both.”

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273. “Grayson thinks you’re some master manipulator. My aunt is convinced you must have Hawthorne blood. But I think you’re the old man’s final riddle – one last puzzle to be solved.” He took another step, bringing the two of us that much closer. “He chose you for a reason, Avery. You’re special, and I think he wanted us – wanted me – to figure out why.”

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274. “We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.”

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275. “The Rooneys may run Rockaway Watch, but it’s a small town. They’re small people with a small reach, and the legal situation had already been taken care of. Toby could have come home, but he fought it.”

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276. “Passive-aggressive, sure, and petty.”

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277. “Let the rest of the players think I’m dealing with daddy issues. Hawthornes have grandaddy issues instead.”

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278. “Jameson thought about what he’d written down, and it took everything in him not to look at Avery, because suddenly, her presence here didn’t seem like a boon. It was a risk. After all, Jameson could hear the Proprietor saying, these things are always more interesting when at least a few players have “skin in the game.” Anyone reading those words would be bad. Avery reading them would open Pandora’s box.”

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279. “And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.”

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280. “Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.”

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281. “Had the old man told his wife that their son was still alive? Had he known – or even suspected – the truth back when this will was written?”

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282. “Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call “easy”. Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.”

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283. “Toby wasn’t an idiot.” Jameson’s expression was sharp. “Unless this was some kind of suicide pact, he would have had a contingency plan to make sure that he and his friends weren’t caught in the flames.”

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284. “If I were a boy,” Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, “people would just call me driven.” “Thea.” Constantine frowned at her. “Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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285. “Screw Ian. Jameson didn’t need Ian. It was – now and always – Jameson and Avery against the world.”

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286. “I thought about the news coverage of the fire. The suggestion that there had been a wild party that had spun out of control. The way that the tragedy had been blamed, again and again, on Kaylie Rooney, when the three upstanding young men had been partying straight out of rehab.”

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287. “Hate me, if you can, for all the reasons I deserve it. But don’t hate me for leaving while you sleep. I knew you wouldn’t let me go, and I cannot bear to say good-bye.”

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288. “Nee, ik heb geweigerd omdat degene die de klacht heeft ingediend, mogelijk iets in mijn kluisje heeft gelegd. – Tess.”

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289. “All I knew was that Skye had been right. Jameson was hungry. And so am I.”

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290. “I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”

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291. “Personally, I find this turn of events delightful,” Max declared. “But you look like a motherfaxing deer caught in motherfaxing headlights.”

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292. “Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I’m more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?”

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293. “Everyone had things they found inexplicably attractive. Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word ‘empirically’ and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.”

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294. “From what I picked up during the remainder of the evening, Campbell Ames had a reputation for pulling “stunts like this”. It wasn’t entirely clear what constituted as a stunt, though I did gather that borrowing cars that didn’t belong to her and wearing white after Labor Day were both in Campbell’s repertoire.”

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295. “Grayson jerked to a halt, every muscle in his body taut. “Don’t you say her name.” His posture was angry, but his voice sounded like it was about to crumble. Like I’d gutted him. Not just Jameson. My mouth went dry. Emily didn’t just matter to Jameson.”

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296. “The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”

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297. “Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?” Zara’s last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. “I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will.” Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don’t trust Thea.”

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298. “H, the word is, two lowercase letters at the very end: v and e.”

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299. “I could understand why my mother’s mother had called Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?”

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300. “Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.”

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